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A man with the red hat The most important official at each railway station was the stationmaster, who, along with the overall management of the station, had a number of other duties from managing freight operations up to supervision and station supply. When dispatching the train from the station, he took responsibility for its safe […]

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The standard Soviet couchette car ( ́platzkart ́) was built at the Leningrad Yegorov factory in 1940. It was later used as a living van (PMS 08) of a track maintenance unit, which is why most of its original interior hasn ́t been preserved and the roof of the former couchette car is missing its […]

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This standard Czarist-era covered goods wagon from late 19th or early 20th century could carry up to 1,000 poods (16.4 tonnes) of goods. It could also carry eight horses or up to forty people. The Soviet automatic SA-3 couplings have later been installed, but it still has the original hand brake and a brake platform […]

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The four-wheel tank cars were most likely built in the second half of the 1940s. Their numbers 0572 and 0573 are from a later period, given by Estonian Railways. Such tank cars were built from 1945 to 1948 both by Soviet factories and, as reparations, by German factories. These tank cars were originally used for […]

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The DMSu-889 (ДМСу-889) is a track motor car designed for the maintenance and repair works of the overhead contact system of an electric railway. Later it has been adapted for measuring contact lines by replacing the liftable platform with an older type current collector (pantograph). The track motor car from the 1970s is displayed at […]

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The AGMu-2274 (АГМу-2274, АГМу = автодрезина грузовая монтажная универсальная) is a track motor car designed for track maintenance and used for transporting trackmen and materials for railway superstructures. The vehicle has a 360° rotable console crane for loading and unloading materials with maximum load lifting capacity of 1 tonne. The four-wheel track motor car was […]

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The steam locomotive 52 3368, initially numbered 16494, was completed in April 1943 in Munich at the Krauss-Maffei Works and then transported to Austria, the Bruck an der Mur depot of the Villach division. The Hungarian State Railways (MAV) rented the locomotive and on June 7, 1945, it was captured by the Red Army. When […]